Unified Data Governance for Data + AI
Eliminate silos, simplify governance and accelerate insights at scale
TOP TEAMS SUCCEED WITH UNIFIED AND OPEN GOVERNANCEGovern, discover, monitor and share — all in one place
Unify your data landscape, streamline compliance and drive faster, trusted insights with open, intelligent governance across data and AI
Unified governance
Enforce consistent discovery, access, quality monitoring and compliance controls across structured and unstructured data, ML models and business metrics — in any cloud. With unified governance, you can reduce risk, simplify audits and accelerate data access without compromising control.
Open
Break free from platform lock-in. Leverage any open lakehouse formats (Delta, Apache Iceberg™, Hudi, Parquet) of your choice, connect to external data sources without migration and integrate with your existing BI, AI and catalog tools through open APIs. Whether you’re sharing data internally or with partners, make collaboration secure, scalable and open standards based.
Built-in intelligence
Go beyond data discovery and access management — empower users with business context. With built-in lineage, usage insights and business semantics, users can find, understand and explore data faster. AI-powered documentation, natural language search and conversational spaces help technical and business users get from data to decision — faster and with full business context.
Built-in intelligent governance
Simplify discovery, compliance and monitoring across your entire data and AI estate with intelligent governanceUnified catalog for all structured data, unstructured data, business metrics and AI models across open data formats like Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Hudi, Parquet and more.
Define dynamic data access policies based on data attributes and tags at the row and column levels. Autoclassify sensitive data (e.g., ”PII”) and enforce rules so that users see only data permitted by their attributes or roles, simplifying administration at scale.
End-to-end automated column-level lineage for data and AI assets to simplify impact analysis, troubleshooting, governance and AI audits.
Discover, query and govern data across warehouses, catalogs and databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, SAP, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery, AWS Glue, Hive Metastore and more — no data migration needed.
Monitor data and AI quality at scale with anomaly detection, freshness tracking, classification and proactive alerts.
Experience full interoperability across your ecosystem with open APIs and avoid vendor lock-in. Connect to any tool, platform or engine — your ecosystem, your choice.
Define, govern and access business metrics in one place — ensuring consistent, trusted insights across all AI, BI and data workflows with Unity Catalog Metrics.
Securely share live data and AI assets across platforms, regions and clouds — without data replication. Built on open standards to avoid vendor lock-in.
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Explore 5 Key Use Cases for Unity Catalog
Standardize governance across all data and AI assets and users — without compromise
Unify access, classification and compliance policies across every business unit, platform and data type.
- Apply consistent governance across structured data, unstructured files and AI assets
- Scale access control using attributes and automation
- Centrally manage policies for data privacy, regulatory compliance and risk mitigation
- Reduce operational overhead with a single pane of glass for policy enforcement and audit
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